when we don't land anyone from the Kansas top 4, during the state's two best years in recent history?
Hawkinson, Zlatnik will probably go to ku.
Harper is a longshot.
Arthur isn't coming.
It says more about Bill Snyder more than anything.
These kids should have been brainwashed by now. They grew up in the hey day
of KSU and honestly, should have dreamed of wearing the purple and white on Saturday's.
But b/c Coach Snyder handled the media the way he did and the marketing of the
program was in the stone ages , I feel the kids got mixed messages about Coach Snyder and KSU. They got -- KSU goes to bowl games b/c they don't play anyone in the non-conference. KSU is Juco U. Bill Snyder is a task master that while he wins, he's too demanding of his assistant coaches, kids don't
have fun playing with him etc.
The way the "glory years" were marketed and delivered to the generation of kids that were living in it was a giant swing and a miss. They had 11
straight years of bowl games. An 11 year foundation in which to cement KSU as "the place to be if you're a Kansas kid and want to
play division I football.
These kids that Prince is missing on -- the message or "want to" should have been bred into them long before this.
The marketing of the program is key -- especially when you have things rolling. I'm "hopeful" that our marketing department has their gears in full motion with this class that just came in, b/c this is a chance to really capitalize for the now and the tomorrow.
I'm convinced that if Prince gets things going the way he envisions, that he'll be able to walk into any house in this state and handpick the kids that he wants to wear the purple and white.
Snyder could have done that , but didn't quite grasp....or maybe he didn't want to deal with it.......the game that has to be played for that to work.
